i ♥ faces photo challenge: Focusing on Angles

The theme this week at iheartfaces is "Focusing on Angles" and for the first time I actually took the picture for the theme, rather than finding a picture already taken after the theme was announced. I love to see different angles in photography and although it may not come naturally to me, it is something I have been trying to work very hard on. My daughter is not so willing to pose these days, and to get just a few moments of cooperation is sure to cost me 30 extra minutes before bed or maybe a chocolate ice cream bar. Even then it's slim pickings. I usually end up with expressions like this.
(which I love BTW, don't get me wrong) ;)



Are we done yet?!? Because this is like the third picture you've taken already! geeze.

Jump for Joy!

I originally added these photos to the iheartfaces challenge, but needed to edit it down to just one. But I wanted to repost these as it seems most everyone that stopped by so far enjoyed them. Cali was being super helpful and allowing me to practice shutter priority mode last fall, which turned out to be about an hour of fun a giggles. :)

i ♥ faces photo challenge: Jump for Joy!

The Challenge at i♥faces is "Jump for Joy." I have some fun jumping pictures from when I was practicing shutter priority mode last fall. It ended up being a really fun time for myself and my daughter. We laughed so much and she caught on quick that the dramatic facial expressions made for better jumping shots. We had to look at every one after every jump, of course. :)

Don't forget to stop by i♥faces to see more amazing Jump for Joy photos.





***edited to add, there was a typo at iheartfaces and it orginally said we could enter 5 photos. But it is really supposed to be only one. I have edited my post to include only one shot, but I also made a new blog post to show the sequence you may see being mentioned in the comments. Click on blog home to see those***

Project 3.6.5.

1/29/10

This is Kara, she is our foster Bengal. When she is happy, she drools. :)



1/30/10

No Pictures this day. I thought since I have no pictures I would look through my photobucket and find an oldie but goodie. I think this was approx September 2004 on the beaches of San Diego.



1/31/10

A shoot with my sisters kitten, Bandit. Handsome little guy.



2/1/10

No photos again this day. :( I hope this is the last day missed, though I still have one more week to go through. Another oldie but goodie.

Awwww. This is Cali at one day old. Laying in her daddy's arms, she was so big!



2/2/10

Gotta love Wii fit, she is running in place and having fun at the same time!



2/3/10

Cats like to be in the highest places possible.....



2/4/10

Feeding time!

Project 3.6.5.

I'm late! hehe

It's been a busy week with lots of new things going on. The most immediate is a rally to win a photo contest for a great rescue I volunteer for. Voting starts tonight at midnight and I would be forever grateful to everyone that wouldn't mind taking a few minutes to register and vote for my cat, Leo. You have seen his handsomeness many times in my 3.6.5.'s and we have a chance to win $10,000 for the rescue organization that saved him.

Vote HERE. And please let me know if you voted so I can personally Thank you. :)

1/21/2010

Another night of playing with the softboxes.

And of course, Leos handsome self! Doesn't he look like a great spokes-cat for Bissell Vacuums. ;)





Cali boo boo and all :)

Project 3.6.5.

1/18/2010

It was a beautiful day today. Sunny, in the low 50's. A perfect day to go ice skating! We had so much fun. :)



Just getting started



What a beautiful way to spend the afternoon



Having fun!



I was trying to be creative without having to kneel down on ice skates. lol



Taking a well deserved rest.



Check me out Mom, I'm going to do some tricks!





Don't let this photo fool you. It looks like she is about to take off like a pro. She was just "doing tricks" ;)



Okay, I'm done.



One happy girl!!



I'm a people watcher. Sometimes the urge to take a picture of a stranger gets the better of me. I couldn't resist this young connection.



On the way home we were blessed with another beautiful sunset.



a little later

Project 3.6.5.

1/15/10



A tried out a new action I downloaded from coffeeshop, called butterscotch vintage.

Project 3.6.5.

It's Gymnastics day again and another opportunity to work on my exposure in not so ideal circumstances. I'm getting better but still had to make the images black and white for them to look okay. HAHA!

Anxiously waiting for class to start.



Bridges!



The following was the group working on jumps. I should probably know the names of the jumps, but I don't. ;)

Project 3.6.5.

I liked the unusual shapes and pattern to the clouds. Later that night we had the most beautiful sunset I have seen in a really long time, but I had left the house without my camera for probably the first time since Jan 1st. Bummer!!!



And one of my sleeping beauty to round out the day that was 1/13/10

Project 3.6.5.

I thought I would do something a little different today. Something I almost never do! And that would be to take a picture of myself. Usually the thought of that would make me cringe but I was feeling a little sexy today, and that probably shows in my pose. *blush*

So, before I change my mind, here is the lady behind the camera!



And just for fun, here is my little artist starting her masterpiece. :)

I ♥ FACES PHOTO CHALLENGE: BEST FACE PHOTO

I am entering the I ♥ FACES photo challenge again this week. If you follow my blog you just saw this picture but since I am adding it to the contest I need to give it its very own blog address. :)

Happy Birthday I ♥ FACES. This picture of my daughter was taken on 1/8/2010. :)

Project 3.6.5.

1/10/2010

My sweet blue eyed Rajah boy, oh how I love you so. :)





And my not so sweet blue eyed girl, oh how you keep me on my toes. :)

Project 3.6.5.

1/8/2010

Project 3.6.5.

Thursday nights is Gymnastics Class, and I have spent the last 10 or so weeks trying to figure out how to get decent shots in such low crappy light. LOL

Well I have learned no matter how much I want to use my zoom lens, it just won't work. I have to use my 50mm 1.8 to be able to get some shots that aren't blurry.

Here is my sweet girl doing a handstand on the balance beam. :)

1/7/2010